Dental Assisting

Chemeketa offers the training you need to enter this rewarding career.

Potential Salary$40,000

topics Health Sciences

Skills & InterestHelping People

CareersHealth Sciences

Why choose program or class?

Chemeketa's Dental Assisting program prepares graduates to sit for their national Certifiied Dental Assistant exam. Chemeketa offers the training you need to enter this rewarding field. Our program is accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Accreditation and is partnered with Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) to provide a Bachelor's degree option in Dental Hygiene.

What will you learn?

Our experienced faculty will teach you the skills to meet our program outcomes –

Perform basic and expanded chairside functions to facilitate the completion of restorative and advanced operative procedures

Manipulate dental materials to support chairside and laboratory procedures

Upon entry into the program, you will be required to pass a criminal background check and pass a ten-panel drug screening urinalysis conducted by a college approved vendor. If you do not pass the criminal background check and/or the drug screening, program registration will not be possible.

If you are arrested during the time you're enrolled in the program, you must notify the Dental Assisting Program Chair of the arrest. Your status in the program will be reviewed by the Dental Assisting Program Chair and the Dean of Health Sciences. A possible outcome of the review may be your inability to continue in the program.